Reminiscence

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  • noun. The act or process of recollecting past experiences or events.
  • noun. An experience or event recollected.
  • noun. A narration of past experiences.
  • noun. An event that brings to mind a similar, former event.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In biology, the retention by a modern organism, during its development, of traces of the effect of past ancestral history.
  • noun. The act or power of recollecting; recollection; the voluntary exertion of the reproductive faculty of the understanding; the recalling of the past to mind.
  • noun. That which is recollected or recalled to mind; a relation of what is recollected; a narration of past incidents, events, and characteristics within one's personal knowledge; as, the reminiscences of a quinquagenarian.
  • noun. In music, a composition which is not intended to be original in its fundamental idea, but only in its manner of treatment.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory.
  • noun. That which is remembered, or recalled to mind; a statement or narration of remembered experience; a recollection.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of remembering long-past experiences, often fondly.
  • noun. A mental image thus remembered.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
  • noun. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
    • Word Usage
    "It was a Maxfield Parrish reminiscence from the Arabian"
    cross-reference
    nostalgia  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    memory  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    allusion  amusement  anecdote  anticipations  correspondence  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    anamnesis  anecdotes  commitment to memory  exercise of memory  flashback  
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